1st Edition

Recording Women A Documentation of Six Theatre Productions

By Geraldine Cousin Copyright 2000
182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

First Published in 2000, Recording Women documents the work of three leading feminist theatre companies, Sphinx Theatre Company, Scarlett Theatre and Foresight Theatre, through a combination of interviews with theatre practitioners and detailed descriptions of productions in performance. Each of the six productions is innovative in content and style. Scarlett Theatre’s Paper Walls and... Read more

Introduction to the Series Acknowledgements List of Plates Introduction 1. Scarlet Theatre 2. Foursight Theatre 3. The Sphinx Theatre Company Afterword Bibliography Index

Biography

Geraldine Cousin (back in 2000 when this book was first published) was a Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of Warwick. 

Reviews of the original publication:

‘Cousin’s Recording Women is the most traditionally situated within theater history and documentation. Framed as an academic bearing witness to six productions by three notable companies, the author covers Scarlett Theatre, Foursight Theatre, and The Sphinx Theatre Company. Cousin, a Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of Warwick, is most concerned by the “process of erasure” faced by small women's companies working within ephemeral medium of performance.’

TDR/The Drama Review (2002)